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Maxi Poole is a well known and popular TV anchorwoman in Los Angeles. As the story opens she is attending her ex-husbandšs funeral, supposedly as a reporter, but really because she just needed to attend in order to believe he was really gone. Jack Nathanson, the dearly departed, was not a lovely man. He was mean; he was self-centered; he claimed he was buddies with mob members and his career was on the way down. It was hard to find anyone who really mourned for Jack. Maxi had been his second wife; his widow, Janet Orson was his third wife. He had one daughter, Gia, by his first wife who was also an actress-Debra Angelo. The cops were perplexed since the physical evidence pointed to the first wife, but she had an alibi. Maxi had been seen near the scene of the crime around the time the murder was committed which placed her high on the suspect list. In order to clear herself and Debra (who had become her friend when Maxi was Jackšs wife and Giašs stepmother) Maxi decides to mount her own investigation. It gets more and more complicated since the people closest to the deceased begin to be attacked and murdered; Maxi herself is the victim of a vicious attack in her well protected home. Even the cops couldnšt separate future victims from possible suspects. Lange has written a fast moving, and well plotted novel. Several times I thought I had solved the puzzle but when it gradually became clear who actually killed Jack Nathanson, and why he was murdered I was caught off guard. In order to really enjoy a book I need to know enough about the characters to believe in them and care what happens to themLange is good at characterization. Her dialogue was crisp and clean and appropriate to the character and situation. The only thing with which I would quarrel is the length; it seemed to be longer than was needed to tell this particular tale. It was a good read.
Reviewed by Martha Hopkins, July 2003
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